Risk-based management of occupational safety and health in the construction industry – Part 1: Background knowledge

Sousa, Vítor; Almeida, N.; Dias, Luís Alves

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2014.02.008

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“…The reliable lexicon could be developed by repeating the process in Figure 2. The final keywords could be obtained by using the updated lexicon into all the accident reports, which is the safety risk factors and participants to be identified [4,16,19,20,25,33].…”

Section: Lexicon Development and Abstract Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the current research mainly focuses on direct risk factor identification and assessment and often ignore the relationship among participants, management defects and the direct risk factors [19]. Once the above-mentioned relationship is ignored, each participant could not link the management work, responsibilities and direct safety risk factors, which is not helpful to distinguish each participant's safety risk management responsibilities and improve the overall management level [16,20]. For example, Zhou has found that the damaging foundation pit support system is the direct safety risk factor for the collapse accident, but the responsible participant is not clear and the lessons are unclear for the further projects [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Importance Degree Research of Safety Risk Management Processes of Urban Rail Transit Based on Text Mining Method

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China's urban rail transit (URT) construction is coming into the stage of rapid development under the guidance of national policies. However, the URT construction projects belong to high-risk projects and construction safety accidents occur frequently. Presently, safety risk management is in continuous development. Unfortunately, due to risk data deficiencies and lack of relationship between participants and safety risk factors, most of the research results cannot be well applied to URT projects. To overcome the limits, this paper has applied the text mining method into safety risk analysis. Through word frequency analysis and cluster analysis, 15 safety risk factors and 3 participants are identified from 156 accident reports. In addition, the accident descriptive model has been established, which is composed of indirect safety risk factors (management defects), direct safety risk factors and participants. In this model, each accident is the standardized description of the corresponding accident information. This is useful for risk data accumulation and analysis. Then the network structure analysis and risk assessment methods are utilized to make clear 63 relationships among participants, management defects and direct safety risk factors. Subsequently, the risk value of each relationship is evaluated. These safety risk information is integrated into the accident descriptive model by using accident points. Finally, ABC analysis which is a popular and effective method used to classify items into specific categories that can be managed and controlled separately is used to analyze the safety risk management's core process(A), important process(B) and general process(C) in the accident descriptive model. The research results show that the constructor should pay attention to construction coordination, safety specifications, safety measures and personnel education, the supervisor should attach importance to timely communication, the monitoring unit should pay attention to advanced forecast and dynamic control. The main research contributions are as follows: (1) A method of obtaining risk data from unstructured content has been provided; (2) The accident descriptive model could be utilized for risk data continuous accumulation; (3) The emphases of URT construction safety risk management are made clear.

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Importance Degree Research of Safety Risk Management Processes of Urban Rail Transit Based on Text Mining Method

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“…For instance, General Organization for Social insurance (GOSI) [29] reports that, in 2014, the total number of reported work accidents in Saudi Arabia was about 69,241; out of these, construction industry was responsible for 51.35%. To this end, scholars [2,30,31] have attributed the high percentage of workplace accidents to many factors related to the construction industry, such as the dynamism of the working environment where the working environment is usually unstable. More still, even though construction labour accounts for about 7.1% of the labour force in Jordan, accidents in construction industry account for about 10.5% of incidents [32].…”

Section: Construction Industry Safety Scenariomentioning

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“…Mouleeswaran also avers that construction still contributes to a high number of occupational related fatalities despite recent efforts to improve the safety image [1]. The above position is anchored by Sousa et al [2] who contends that the pace of accidents in the construction industry is still very high despite considerable improvements over the recent years. Buttressing this fact, Hinze [3] avows that when the construction industry is compared with other labour intensive industries, it exhibited a disproportionately high rate of disability injuries and fatalities incomparable to its size.…”

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Multilevel Safety Intervention Implementation Strategies for Nigeria Construction Industry

Okoye

Okolie

Ngwu

2017

Journal of Construction Engineering

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This study was aimed at examining the relationships between the effectiveness of safety intervention programmes and implementation strategies in the Nigeria construction industry. Structured questionnaires were distributed to construction stakeholders across some selected states in Nigeria and the data generated were analysed using Pearson's product moment correlation. The study found that the effectiveness of safety intervention programmes for construction site accidents prevention is significantly related to the communication implementation strategies. Based on the principles of social ecological theory and UNICEF's communication for development strategies, this study developed a multilevel safety intervention implementation strategy for construction industries in Nigeria. Four communication strategies, namely, advocacy, social mobilisation, social change communication, and behaviour change communication, which are central to the effectiveness of safety intervention implementation programmes for construction site accidents prevention, were identified. It further revealed that these communication strategies could be individually and collectively applied at different intervention levels but that the greatest effect would be felt when all strategies are systematically combined with more efficient use of resources. The study recommended systematic actions by policy makers, construction organisations, and various community groups towards construction safety interventions, since maximum effect could only be felt when safety interventions are implemented across all levels.

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“…Coaching of specific employees at specific jobs occur when there are multiple functions in a simple organization and the risks arising are different from every department [52]. For instance, in a power plant, employees working in the main grid are vulnerable to electrocutions while those in heating chambers are vulnerable to hyperthermia and other bodily issues [53,54]. Thus, coaching may also include specialized trainings and mentoring.…”

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Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

Son¹,

Albertyn²,

Gerber³

2017

J Ergonomics

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The main objective of the study is to determine the effect and importance of coaching on developing an environment of occupational safety and risks in a workplace. Workplace safety and health constitutes reducing the haphazard arising from one's occupation by implementing safety rules and policies for employees of an organization. Here a qualitative research was conducted to understand various aspect of occupational safety and health (OSH) and the role of coaching. Interview results implicated that coaching of senior employees in the case organization had helped in passing on knowledge, safety management, improved health conditions, reduced accidents and improving the financial expenditures. Thereby it was implicated that coaching on OSH has helped positively in reducing occupational hazards and risks.

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Risk-based management of occupational safety and health in the construction industry – Part 1: Background knowledge

Cited by 204 publications

References 106 publications

Importance Degree Research of Safety Risk Management Processes of Urban Rail Transit Based on Text Mining Method

Importance Degree Research of Safety Risk Management Processes of Urban Rail Transit Based on Text Mining Method

Multilevel Safety Intervention Implementation Strategies for Nigeria Construction Industry

Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety

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